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By Joseph Wilson on May 4, 2008 in Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Foreign Policy, Foreign affairs, Iran, Iraq, Joseph Wilson, NATO, National Defense | 40 Comments
Published today in the North Carolina News & Observer, May 4, 2008 || Reprinted with express permission
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SANTA FE, N.M. - In recent weeks Americans have been subjected to a litany of outrageous statements from Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama was finally compelled to distance himself from his radical […]
By Joseph Wilson on Apr 17, 2008 in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, Foreign Aid, Foreign affairs, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, NATO, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., William Ayers | 47 Comments
Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted with express permission.
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Senator Obama’s ill-conceived remarks likening small town Americans to embittered guns-and-God bigots have triggered a justifiable furor. Not only are the remarks insulting, but also factually incorrect.
As it happens, at the same event in San Francisco, Senator Obama made other remarks, equally startling, insulting our Foreign Service, […]
By Joseph Wilson on Apr 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Colin Powell, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Joseph Wilson, NATO, Valerie Plame Wilson | 65 Comments
Re-printed from the Philadelphia Inquirer with express permission.
Joseph C. Wilson IV is a retired career diplomat, a former U.S. ambassador, presidential foreign-policy adviser, and author of “The Politics of Truth”
Sen. Barack Obama declared in Pennsylvania on March 27 that his foreign policy would “return” to that of George H.W. Bush and that Sens. John McCain […]
By Joseph Wilson on Mar 27, 2008 in AIDS, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, David Axelrod, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Israel, John Kerry, John McCain, Joseph Wilson, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Susan Axelrod, Tony McPeak, Valerie Plame Wilson, Zbigniew Brzezinski | 30 Comments
Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted here with express permission.
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The past week marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and the milestone of the 4,000th American soldier killed in that disastrous adventure.
Commemorating and underscoring the urgent need for a new policy direction, Senator Clinton delivered a serious and detailed address clearly setting out […]
By Joseph Wilson on Mar 20, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign affairs, Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Tony Rezko | 47 Comments
Originally posted today at Huffington Post. Reprinted with express permission.
The Clinton campaign ad featuring a 3 a.m. telephone call as a metaphor for experienced leadership in foreign policy has generated considerable comment, but much of the reaction is from people who have never been involved in foreign policy and certainly never had to field […]
By Joseph Wilson on Mar 2, 2008 in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign affairs, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Joseph Wilson | 85 Comments
Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted here with my express permission.
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Barack Obama argues that he deserves the Democratic nomination and Hillary Clinton doesn’t because he possesses superior “judgment,” as he calls it, on the key issues we face as a nation. As definitive proof he offers one speech he made in 2002 during a […]
By Joseph Wilson on Dec 21, 2007 in Current Affairs | 86 Comments
Yesterday the London Times reported central questions about Senator Obama’s shocking dearth of international experience: “Fresh doubts over Barack Obama’s foreign policy credentials were expressed on both sides of the Atlantic last night, after it emerged that he had made only one brief official visit to London - and none elsewhere in Western Europe or […]
By Joseph Wilson on Nov 6, 2007 in Iran, Presidential Candidates | 23 Comments
On November 1, 30 Democratic senators, led by Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, delivered a strong letter to President Bush in response to his increasingly bellicose language on Iran. The letter informs the president that he does not have the authority to take military action against Iran without prior, specific authorization from the Congress. This […]
